1 r Wandéring bicycle riders have lately ©aused a vast increase in the business of wayside inns. The Forestry Department of India is successfully naturalizing the mahog- any tree in Bangalore, Labrador, a country which we al ways associate with Arctio snowdrifts, icebergs. ete., has 900 species of flowering plants, fifty-nine ferns and over 250 species of mosses and lichens, Handkerchiefs were first made for the market at Paisley, Scotland, in 1748, and sold for about 81 each. Last year it is computed that 80,000,000 dozen were sold in the United States. Muny Germans are leaving Kansas and settling in Maryland. The great West has been over-boomed, and thon- sands of people want to get AWAY, says the Atlanta Constitution in explana- tion. An English woman of great wealth claims that the elergy pay so much at- tention to the poor that she could not get one to attend her husband when he needed spiritual consolation. She admits a great deal, is the comment of the Atlanta Journal, Venice is in hopes of reviving her ancient portant harbor-works have been going maritime prosperity. Im- on for the last twenty years to form the “Lido Port,” which probably will i be ready for vessels next year, although | the works will not be concluded till 1895. Once in St. Paul, Minn,, a 81.50.a- day lab He went to Southern California and began rer had lang trouble. Keoping bees. Last year he sold $40,000 worth of honey, in Southern bloom laying up honey for Bees do well California, for at all seasons, and they keep on the winter that never cones, isn't it? Great joke on the bee 8, ——— The Western Tobacco Journal ad- that the snnual of his country, on a duces figures to show per-capita manufac- tured basis of 65,000,000 population, is five mnsumption tobaceo ia and one-third pounds, costing not less than 85 at retail approaches the United States in the No other country amount and value of tobacco consumed per capita, The wheat ontturn will not exceed 443,000,000 bushels, American Agriculturist's according to the own reports, and of its interpretations of Govern- ment returns, compared to 614,000, 000 as last two seasons 1890, the average Zor the «00,0000 Ni bushels in and Nearly 2. Hin LODO less ROTVS were devoted to wheat than last Year, and the bulk of this decrease was in the surplus States, which bid fair to have than last year, and 125,000,000 bushels un- der the 1891, bush Is wo’ 4 18,000,000 fewer surplus States’ product Prince Bismarck made a snc statement in his address to an organi- He drew a French education, zation of schoolmasters. the r gvsiems of comparison between the showing the bearing of and German latter in the unity and strength of the Nation He dislikes the French system because it “National ignorance of the geography and history of other Nations.” the inenleates vanity and No Nation excels Germany in its educational system, and the ex-Chancellor well knows the ad- vantage of making the German school “‘a specific institute, like a corps of officers.” Great excitement prevails in France owing to the discovery that, of tho twenty-eight companies which own the various submarine cables which en- circle the globe as with an iron net, no less than nineteen are English, and that during the recent troubles in con- nection with Siam the dispatehes ad- dressed from the far enst werd read and known at the English Foreign Office several hours before their delivery in Paris France is, in fact, entirely dependent upon English companies for cable com- munication with her various colonial dependencies, ieluding even Tunis, and actually goes so far us to grant a Btate subsidy of $60,000 per annum to the English “African Direct Telegraph Company,” whose lines she is obliged to use in order to rewcih her possessions on the west comst of Afriea. Of the twenty-eight cable companies only two are French, one Danish, three North American and three South American, Indeed, of the 126,000 miles of sub. marine eable which constitute the sub. marine telographic system of the world, more than three-quarters aro in the hands of the English, who are placed thereby in a singularly advantageous to the French Government Position with respect to other nation- | taxed people in the world. | | ried | trifling sum flowers | i held out-of-the From Chicago comes a fond protest against street parades, which are char acterized as a nuisance, Old English silverware is munch in demand in the United States just now, snd genuine pieces, especially those ot historic interest, fetch high prices. Weather forecasts in Great Britain grow more aceurnte every year, and the meteorological council announce with pride that eighty-four per cent, of those given last year were success ful, per cent. of the storm warnings were not fulfilled, but fallen to seven per cent. Three years ago nearly seventeen now the rate has The park policemen of San Francisco use the lariat to stop runaway horses, and all are experts with the rope, The Captain of the Golden Gate Park squad says his men ‘“‘can stop a horse within a distance of fifty yards without the elightest danger to themselves,” and he implies, though he doesn't distinetly say so, without danger to the runaway or its rider. The Chinese are the most lightly They have no Chancellor of the Exchequer wor. All the over budget-making, | land there belongs to the State, and « per acre, never altered through long ent. . This is centuries, the 1% pal i ns only | country, and it amounts | 3 | | per head yearly, Two little girls, Gertrude s Hedger, who are wards recently London ard go securely that by no the money be obtained until the They practically destitute, dren are of age, are at and longs, cioth procure decent surroun | or education. The beauty of the elm is skin deep, says the New York more Post, a { a high light of forestry givesit the we rank as a shade tree, both Lis LIKewin and parks, becanse vigorous, and can be grown ins ’ WRN : places, dust has little i are so tough efloct o Certain n them, kinds of maples also have a good stand- : » ing for shade, beauty, and rapid growth, though the soft maple j Onk English and the Turkish less for heavy shade. trees | deen as shade trees in on high rank for that nse New York Tribune: Says the | may not be flattering to but it is a fact, does interest 1n Europe not take n America as in Enrope. This has long beer cuted by the paucity news in the European pross: now foreibly brought to our attention by the indifference of greatest Exposition that has ever been Earope to the The average the United Madagascar, Fuaropean classes States with Australia, South Africa and other do no possible interest for “Way conntries, whose nave This not that there have been so fow Euro- Ings can him. being so, the wonder is pean visitors to the Fair, but that any | one in this country should have e:- pected them to come.” An a result of his investigations, Pro- | fessor McCook estimates the army of | i | silk thread and carpets are | exhibited, Practically all of them are in the prime | | of life and in good health, with noth- tramps in the United States at 45,5845, ing to prevent them from earning a livelihood, three-fifths of them having trades by which to support themselves, | water heaters | and nine-tenths able to read and write, | soroens, rivets, spades, shovels and an im. And yet they are loafers and non«pro ducers, refusing to assume the obliga tivus of citizenship, and are a mere burden to society. At a conservative estimate, their maintenance costs the public 83.50 a week, eighty-four cents of which is spent for spirits and to- bacco ; and if to this is added police and hospital charges, the expense is increased to $4.40 a week, as much as it costa to support the most dangerous erinsinal. The aggregate sum thus required to keep the tramp army in motion is 89,160,000 a year, a sum double thy cost of the Indian burean, and more than one-quarter of the an. nual interest of the public debt Worse than this, the army is a eon stant menace vo public morals and public health! the greater that it is al- ways in motion, in that of those who ore ill by far the larger proportion suffer from axecedingly loathsome and contagious diseases. The tramp evil is thus a most pressing ous, not only because of ite demoralizing effects up- on irdustry, but bocauso of the moral and physical dangers to which it ex: El vein. ih | either, | broad domain, as can bo seen in the Mining | Building. | Mountains, | ranged, | handsome pavilion, | and | different UR NEIGHBOR'S EXHIBIT CANADA'S PRODUCTS AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Natural and Developed Resources of the Country Artistically Exhibit. | CH ARTICUILMTEL 2 Fics, Wit, y Coal and Manufactures From the Atlantic to the Pacific, Canada has made a display at the World's Fair which admirably serves its purposs of illustrating the natural and developed re- | #ources of her own vast territory No de- | partment of the Exposition, says the Chi. | cago Herald, has been slighted by Canada, | Each big bulkdihg contains a COmpro- hensive exhibit, installed according to the best methods that could be employed to | make it attractive, Possessed of resources 80 nearly similar to those of this country that hut slight distinctions ean be drawn, | | | Canada has been animated by the spirit of | competition more keenly, perhaps, than any | | | moans fhe most suitable for the other Nation represented at Jackson Park, | Bhe has given special attention to the display | | of her agricultural products, upon which she | Bhe has not neglected, | prides herself most, hidden beneath hor! the treasures Great care has been taken by the Dominion | ofMedal to properly present the display in the | Agricultural | covering 7000 square feet and rising twe; ty- | { five feet from the floor, stands, sn model of its [ kind, { It is surmounted by & handsome troph Building, A beautiful count of the center aisle, and the Rooky on the north side stuffed deer from I'ne curtain whish surrounds the court four sides is made entirely of grain and straw tastefully and artistically ar bya large on DISPLAYS BY PROVINCES, At the west corner of the court, Ontarl N the banner provines of the Do ninion, has & large and tastefully arranged display. A made entirely of cereals and grasses from the Ontario Governms nt Agricultural College at Gelph, is admired by all visitors, Bampies of grain in glass constitute a beautiful trophy which rises a belght of fally thirty-five feet, The play of grain and cereals from proy of Q od Is one of the most Ars the CANADIAN COURY 1 Bn. There is also a pretty showing of Ape & products of this provines, of graine and cereals from growing areas of the northwest show the splendid quality and extensive variety o these staples Irorg the storehouses of the: Do. minion. Thers & also a splendid exhibit of fars and staffed tirds which adds inrgely to the attractiveness of the display. The mar tine provinces of the Dominion show splen did exhibits of cereals and grains. Here & the mammoth Canadian cheese which at tracts general attention, There i also a display of bisowits heoss, mineral sad aerated waters, bacon and hams, In the an nex of the Agricultural Building, Canada bas 8 large display of agricultural machine ry WHERE OOTTON IS RROGENT, Canada has outdone her mother country In the neat and pretty curtains she has ore. ind her section in the Manufactures Building, The section is on the west side of Columbia avenue, with Great Britain on her north, Denmark on the zogh, and Belgium on the east across the avenue, Every foot of 16.000 square feet of space is orowded with mantlastured goods from all parts of Canada, There are a great many lines of manuals tured products in the Canadian court which will mpare favorably with those of the older, more populous and more pretentious manufacturing countries, The cotton king The display the great grain ‘ | has boon at work in the Dominion, and in | two | onsen | many of the products | sotton well-finished moat native wood tastefully arranged of the Cansdian mills, Cotton fabwios of all kind are shown, and textile goods oeoupy a prominent place, Tweoeds, meltons, braids also extensively | Gloves, hosiery, underwear and | ready-made clothing are tastefully arranged in glazed cases made of Canadian elm, birch cherry, Two very preity cases are filled with specimens of women's work from ® of the Dominion. There is | also a creditable exhibit of sole and harness ! leather, Seales, stoves and hollow ware, | horseshoma, stove polish, | long, are : : : mense array of like artioles meet the oye in every direction. An exhibit of efreular and ry frie of almost every pattern has at. tracted much attention, and it is doubtful whether in this department Canada is sur. passed, A creditable display of boots and shoes oocuples a prominent position, INDIAN KXAINITS RY INDIANS, At the west side of Canada's space Is very interesting and instructive exhibit made by the Department of Indian Affatrs st Ot. tawa. Hore, with the teachers, are & num- ber of Indian boys and girls from the Gov. 2 i g 5 3 i : | Th | the. fact that she has some | 1s | fruits | | grads Lit of o gar apd syrup, which are two stapis | the i continent the sur! bagten provinces of Nowa Beotin on the Atlantio has produced from her gold deposits since 1864 over £7,040,000, In the banner provines of Ontario extensive doe ouits of gold quartz are being worked, nrgely by American capitalists, and bere the output is estimated ut nearly #1.000.000 ane nusdly, dt The samples of coal from British Colum bia show the exesllont quality, both anthra. cite and bituminous, of the inexhaustiile conl flelds of the Paeifie province, Black diamonds are also taken Out in large quantis A is tan prruvinon of Novas Beotia, nna the sparsely wooded and Himitable areas of farming land in the great northwest of the Dominion have a plentiful supply of excel. ent coal, The provines of Nova SReotia makes poor show of coal samples despito of the greatest coal areas on the continent, The showing of nickel and nickel ore from the Budbury district of Ontario Is one which | has attracted universal attention, not only { of mining experts but of navai officers, The Hunlity of these ores can best be indicated by the result of the recent tests made hy the naval departments of Great Britain, France, Germany and the United Bates, in which Canadian nickel was found to have the greatest power of resistance, and was by all purpose of making armor plates for Improved war ves. sols, A VINE DISPLAY &F yuu ITH, The display which Canadas makes in the Hortleultural Bui) ling is one of the most im. | portant und attractive in that department of the Falr, There are three Canadian sourts devoted to frait, vegetables and wine exhib. An interesting features of this splendid display of frait is that Canada not only ex. owls in the variety and nuality of the harder eculiar to s Northern country, but her pears, and the small frufts from Vestern Ontario are of that rm, Juley char. acter which at ones places them in the first of fine fruits peaches The provines of Ontario has a large exh hundred ig ver nlew. embrace thirty-eight varietios of applies in a sate and 1400 bottles of various kinds served fruits. In the oes display of fruits from the tra! experimental t province of Ot five fresh " O% pry - § mrt isa vernment cen. Ottawa The vr of the Cie Juni than any ofl the of Ing a display o thers are Aine df ios Ir besutiful in the |} HAXTYACTURES * Size « FO Aso 8 great rr pd experim This is the t in Maoh 1 of Canada’s exhit cated at the enst or senter Boor. is mediately op that Great Beitain, While this exhild man) niures « lar Interest inery Hall the wife ! lines are shwont, » manufanturers There Is a goo tration engines nAarine engines stoam injectors and exhaust ery, high fro engines, fir waler wheels working machinery of all descriptions display of woodworking machin the finest at the Fair The exhi making machines has attracted special at. tent engines Canadian exhibit in Bullding ¥ on the main ex and in the west gallery, exhibit consists of ear counlers and chilled car wheels, for which Canada is noted, There are also semaphores sod headlights for yachts and vessels and a working model of the Chisago 8hip railway, which Is now Iwing constructed seross the Straits of Northumberland, This work when completed will shorten the ooman trip between Montreal, Quebec and other ports on the lower Bt, Lawrence River and Boston and New York by hundreds of miles, be sides avoiding the dangerous shores eastern Nova Scotia, The exhibit of oar riages, wagons, carts and trucks is fairly good. Particular interest fs manifested in the splendid exhibit of sleighs. In one of the courts fs a beautiful model of the sleigh presented by the women of Canada as a wod- ding present to the Duke of York and the Princess May. It is a magnificent specimen of Canadian workmanship, The display also includes a large exhibit of sporting and pleasure canoes, folding boats, snow shoes, toboggans, ote, for which Canada, as the home of the sportsman, has a world-wide reputation. In the annex of the Transports tion Building is a full standard vestibuled train of the Unoadien Pacific Railway, he Transportation floor annex nter 0 A fenture of the ; ol for exhibition rposes, but is an exact type of the regular on the Canadian Pacific Raliroad, WONDERFUL WOOD DISPLAYS, | grees that ran back 125 | stallions in the group that | heavy and light types, and Orloff half- | or woelght-carriers | poses, | represented by a number of WORLD'S FAIR NTOCK SHOW, The World's Fair stock show opened with a fine display of animals. There ware man ponderous stallions of shagey manag that ale most make the earth tremble as they move, { and along with them come the flery-ayed, flest-footed Arabian and Kentucky steeds, with shiny, satin-like conts, There are horses from every Btaie in the Union, of every grade and variety, Besides the 1206 head of eattls and 1617 { horses, there are over 15800 head of sheep and 1040 h In the snuth end nf the eronnds { nro forty stables, each 200 fot long and forty. | two feet wide, equipped with everything to make a comfortable habitation for the aristo- i eratio competitors, With thelr stalls occupied by the choleest | possessions of the stock ralsers, the livestock | stables have become the canter of attraction, twenty-one | The Czar of Russia has sent horses to the Fair, Some of them have pedis years, and there are #100.000 can not buy, Guard Captain of Cavairy ¥, M. Imna- loff was sent ns special delegate to look miter the horses which were from the stables of his Highness, the Grand Duke Dimitry. The horses are classed os standard Orioff trotters, heavy for CAVARIFY pu The Imperial stables of Germany WORLD'S FAIR NOTES, Taz State Buildings of several States are only houses of pubis comfort where no x hildts of thelr natural production have placed, Here sll who wish lounge and rest, Tux Kansas State Building riety of the fauna, which h terot when all lived the carnivors w Nebuchadn nay oome Tux Wo { art gallery by is hildtion is | notion 58 tieht he oOree } shown ave Australia, a n had exten the hearts of s fe age el fo £0 8 Lhe chase g ticket & a ride ar one an ides Jackson Park se w tion of the various odgs and informati one of thirty rived by walking around the grounds & week, The taliure to fully appreciate the bull their architecture and general more often dus to & lack of pr standing in this respect, ha on the Intramural can give, A — EE HOME RULE REJECTED. The House of Lords Defeats the Bil By a Vote of 4190 to 41. The British House of Lords » Home bi ons, by a vote trip peda oh ctad the Role bill passed by the House if 41% to 41 In the sarly part of the evening Baron Halsbury Baron Herschall, the Bishop of Monkswell and Ripon spoke to hall empty benches, At J o'clock visitors began streaming in Consplewously oe cupying a portion of the area of the House were twenty-lwo bishops, attired in their capacions robes with lawn sleoves, Members of the House of Commons crowded the ae cesses and standing room around the throne Outside of the Parliament Houses organ ined bands from Conservative workingmen's clubs, formed to insite a jubliant demonstra tion on the rejection of the Home Rule Lill, bogan to assemble at 10 o'clock. Hint their intention having reached the Radical workingmen's clubs and Irish societies Baron small detachments of these soon appesred on | the soene. As a brawl was feared the police broke up the different groups and kept them moving, Lord Salisbury rose at 10.30 o'clock, amid choers, and began his speech, the last of the debate, Lord Salisbury spoke for an hour and a quarter nst the bill. The Earl of Kimberley, Lord Precident of the Counedl and Secretary of State for india, briefly re- plied to Lord Salisbury The House divided at midnight and the ro Suit was the rejection of the bill by a vate of 410to 41. The Marquis of Waterford voted sitting, and the Earl of Gallows OUR PAPER MONEY. A Total Amount of $1,112,001,108 in the Country, An official statement prepared by the Treasury Departmont shows the total of United States notes, Treasury notes, Nae tional bank notes, xold and silver certit date, , and currency corti vatstanding to be Ono-dollar notes, $56 two dollar $51,190,586 | Ryedotine, $300,397 i ten dollar, LoTR 406 i ir, b . * 1790; dollar, bt 4 " 64 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Fastern and Middle States, { Acrine upon orders from Bocretary Car. { lisle Postmaster Dayton has ousted John 1, { Davenport, Chis! Pedersl Supervisor of | Elections, from bis quarters in the Sew York | Postoffies, Linon Day was extensively eslebrated in New York and other Eastern cities with lnrge | parades, plenics and speeschmaking, | Tue cornerstons of a Afty4kousand dollar | Memorial Chureh to the late Jay Gould was | Inid at Roxbury, N, Y.. his early home, by his oldest son, Goorgs Gould, | Dn Bosxer A { Lehigh University, {| hem, Penn Lisassenrow, President of died suddenly at Bethls- Maxy closed mills and factories in | paris of the Eastern and | resuming operations various Middle Btates are Tuomas Greasox, a New York polio | while on duty on Br ay, | and almost instantly killed by man, WHE run over a cab, Tux New York Grand Jury has indicted Miss Emma Goldman for aking anarchistis #peschon, Mus, Vewzee Vossoex, her | son Willie, and A, Novack, sn frier 1, disd | ut Nowark, N. J. from the effects of cating toadstools in mistake for shrooms, ? ten-year-old Massacuuserrs Prohibitionists inated a Btate ticket headsd by Rey Louis A. Banks, of Boston, for Governor The People's Party have also put a ticket in the field, with George H. Cary, of Lynn, the Gubernatorial candidate, A crazy Italian, running through stroets of Now York and trying to kdl with a revolver and a knife, was shot nave nom- the people iad i Ya poi wrrnan, Bouth and West, Tue children of Jaco ving near Nateher, Miss, were | leath while their sarents were a went, throe : Arie I ex-Con- ’ usin eleven ¢ Carolina the ently bonged oo ut India i at ind HR Miller { Tue Maryland Reg ton, at Baltimore, ter. Jr ar Compt nt! fire wr GG 5 desir ELE oars that pid (7) Washington. Tnx Senate has rejected the nomination of Henr C. Stuart, of Denver, to be Rocretary ! Legation in Gustemals and Honduras and nsul-General to Guatemala, Mr. Stuart was opposed by citizens of the countries to which he was Esraxistao K Zesariow, Envoy rdinarcy and Minister Plenipotentiary Argentine Republic to the United States, has iosted President Cleveland to act as riftrator in a territorial dispute between the Argentine Republic and Brasil, Ix a report to the State Department, Levi W. Meyers, American Consul at Victoria, B Cl, estimated that the total catoh of seal dur. ing the season of 1883, British and American, | and including both sides of the Pacific. will reach at loast 100,000 skins, The tota: seal- ing feet of this year was about ninety-two vessels, of which thirtytwo cleared from San Francisoo, six from Seattle and afty-four from Vietoria, Tux Pas-Amerioan Medioal Congress. in session at the National Capitai, adopted a resolution urging the suspension of immigra- | tion trom cholera-infected ports The dele | gatos visited the White House, and were | presented to President Cleveland, Presper r CLuveraxy bas nominated C. H. Dickinson to be Burveyor-General of | Louisiana. He also sent to the Senate n number of recess appointments, including the name of Postmaster Carr, of Phtindel- | phia, and several army promotions, pts are running lower Extras of 1h of the | Goveasmest reoel than at any time sinok the war. Hox, Jostan Quincy has resigned as As sistant Secretary of State, his resignation to take affect upon the conclusion of certain work fn the State Department whieh he bas on hand, A sraTeMExT Pp by the ment shows that sihoe November National banks to the tary liquidation, of roosivers and Nutiona! Bank E Foreign, Estix Pacman killed by Arab in the
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